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Free Email Providers
It seems as though everyone is offering free email
access of one type or another, some pop3 but most are web based. It's really
difficult to sort out the chaff from the wheat but here are some that are pretty good and
we will be adding others as we do our research.
Webmail Alert 2000
It is FREE! You can use it with no charge for life!
Supports major web-based email like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, USA.NET,
MailCity, ZDnet Mail and Eudora Mail, Multiple accounts on a email service supported
Notify you when you receive new email with pop up message box, customizable sound and
flashing icon in system tray Enable you to go to Inbox with a single click Can configure
interval time to check mail Auto-check email when there is a connection Run on windows
startup Support proxy server Built-in updater which inform user whenever there is a newer
version
@anyMail
Automatically checks your web-based mailbox! Double-click
to access your inbox immediately! Compose web-based mail offline!
Check and compose POP3 mail too! Supports your MAPI
email client (Outlook, etc.)! FREE
uReach
Well this one was hard to categorize, it's a web based email, fax, voice mail and they
give you a toll free number for your voice mail, faxes etc. It's a brand new service
and is in Beta right now 05/20/99. You are allowed 30 minutes of access to the toll
free number and I'm not sure if retrieving your messages counts against that time or not.
Apexmail
A web based service with many enhancements, including forwarding and filtering. They
also offer a premium (pay) service.
Hotmail
Probably the grand-daddy of all free email services, they are a web based service but now
users of FrontPage Express 5 can access their email without having to go to the hotmail
website. I have used it and it does work quite well.
Hotmail although does have some limitation, such as no forwarding, and it's getting harder
to find a unique user ID because their are so many people using this service.
Hotpop
This service has both web based and pop3/smtp accounts. You have to fill out a
rather lengthy and somewhat personal questionnaire. Also they will place your account on
hold if you fail to use it for 30 days. They also send you email from their
advertisers (although you know this going in), that's how they make their money. It's over
all a pretty reliable service and you can send and receive from either your email program
or the web based program which makes it quite convenient.
Nettaxi
Nettaxi offers both pop3/smtp and web based email services. Although occasionally
down for some reason for the most part they are a reliable service, you also get a web
page. Combined size for both email and webspace is 3 megs.
USA.NET
This service is web based and has been around a while, we used the service at it's
beginning and weren't all that happy with it (too much down time and too slow), but from
what we've been told things have improved quite a bit so it's probably worth checking out.
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